Sugar and Slavery in Portuguese Brazil

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Sugar and Slavery in Portuguese Brazil

• By
• Kasey Moffitt
• Krista Ezzelle
• Christina Church

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Facts to Know about The Engenho

• It is also known as a sugar mill.
• Related to the English word engine.
• It always combined agricultural and industrial
  enterprises.
• Among the most complex enterprise in America.

• The owners of sugar mills were only the
  privileged class.
• The operated on very small profit margins.
• Business was always high.
• It produced things like molasses and refined
  sugar.

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• The Engenho

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The Search for Labor

• The peoples of Brazil were not sedentary
  cultivators.
• During the 1560s smallpox and measles ravaged
  the whole Brazilian coast, making it difficult
  for Portuguese to find potential laborers.

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Slavery

• The Portuguese Plantation managers imported
  slaves as early as the 1530s.
• They had working conditions, mistreatment,
  tropical heat, poor nutrition and inadequate
  housing.

• It produced high rates if disease and mortality.
• Typically lost 5 to 10 percent of their slaves
  annually.
• The number of deaths in the slave population
  usually exceeded the number of births.

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Slaves
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